A tense chamber drama about the weather forecast that decided D-Day. All talk and barometric readings, no beaches, and it…
Dir. Usman Riaz
Who hasn’t been inspired by Studio Ghibli? Pakistan’s first ever hand-drawn animated feature clearly takes inspiration from the famed film…
Dir. Mstyslav Chernov
Formally speaking, 20 Days in Mariupol is little more than a compilation of footage bravely collected by Mstyslav Chernov in…
Dir. Arun Matheswaran
Set in the British colonial era, Captain Miller is more unapologetically violent than its counterparts, but it’s not mindlessly so.…
Dir. Kenneth Dagatan & Kenneth Lim Dagatan
There’s a cruelty to In My Mother’s Skin that may seem off-putting at first, but one must reckon with the…
Dir. Matthew Heineman
Retrograde takes place in early 2021 and captures the exact moment when the US troops exited Afghanistan, effectively leading to…
Dir. Arthur Harari
It’s an incredible story, but it’s one that only really deserves to be told a certain way, which director Arthur…
Dir. Sebastian Meise
Great Freedom is not an easy watch. Apart from the quiet stretches of time and the claustrophobic confines of its…
Dir. Joel Coen
Joel Coen’s minimalist vision of the Scottish play emphasizes that these monstrous acts of hubris and violence are carried out…
Dir. Jessica Swale
Named after the Celtic concept of heaven, Summerland is a rare queer period drama that feels hopeful rather than despairing.…
Dir. Alejandro Landes & Alejandro Landes Echavarría
This crazy adventure thriller was Colombia’s nomination for the 2020 Oscars. “Monos” translates to monkeys, the nom de guerre of…
Dir. Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life) is back in full form with this three-hour movie based on a true story.…
Dir. Kantemir Balagov
This heartbreaking Russian drama takes place in Leningrad six months after the end of the war. A boy is asked…
Dir. Peter Jackson
On paper, They Shall Not Grow Old’s concept doesn’t seem exciting: interviews of old soldiers reminiscing about The Great War…
Dir. Kyle Hausmann-Stokes
Taking a page from ghost movies past, My Dead Friend Zoe follows Merit as she struggles to move on from…
Dir. John Woo
In the fallout of his conflict with producer Tsui Hark, filmmaker John Woo was alone, virtually blacklisted, and unable to…
Dir. Danis Tanović
The situation in No Man’s Land isn’t something we usually see in war movies, considering how often the genre has…
Dir. Ant Palmer & David Fairhead
A quiet documentary that was released to celebrate the British Royal Air Force’s centenary, Spitfire tells the story of the…
Dir. David Oelhoffen
Far from Men adapts Albert Camus’ The Guest, but while the events of the story occurred half a century ago,…
Dir. Max Färberböck
A Woman in Berlin is a harrowing film. Of course, many war dramas aren’t easy to watch, as they present…
Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
While best known for 1977 cult horror classic House, Nobuhiko Obayashi first dreamed of adapting Hanagatami, a 1937 novella by…
Dir. Sergei Bodrov
Given how far back the events are, and how much details were lost from then, we’re not really watching Mongol:…
Dir. William Friedkin
The late, great William Friedkin’s final film is staged with all the military precision of its naval court setting. We…
Dir. Nora Twomey
The Breadwinner is as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. The animation is magical as it seamlessly jumps back and forth…
Dir. Bae Jong & Kwang-hyun Park
War changes the way we view people from the other side. On the most fundamental level, seeing an enemy combatant…
Dir. Kim Kwang-shik & Kim Kwang-sik
While Hollywood still makes some films in this genre, there are less historical epics being released, in part due to…
Dir. Christian Carion
Christmas isn’t usually the best time to watch a tense war drama, but there were some Christmases where war was…
Dir. Chan-wook Park & Park Chan-wook
Not many places are worse to find a dead body than in the border of North and South Korea. The…
Dir. Cate Shortland
What would you do if your parents were Nazis? Based on the second novella of Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room,…
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